I believe that the politics of intervention and the Kosovo war prompted a fresh resumption of the arms race worldwide.
Paul VirilioTechnologies first equipped the territorial body with bridges, aqueducts, railways, highways, airports, etc. Now that the most powerful technologies are becoming tiny - microtechnologies, all technologies can invade the body. These micro-machines will feed the body. Research is being conducted in order to create additional memory for instance.
Paul VirilioI am always concerned with ideas of territory and movement. Indeed, my first book after Bunker Archeology was entitled L'insecurite du territoire (1976).
Paul VirilioSpeed now illuminates reality whereas light once gave objects of the world their shape.
Paul Virilio